Interpreting End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Speech Source Localization Using Layer-wise Relevance Propagation

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Hauptverfasser: Comanducci, Luca, Antonacci, Fabio, Sarti, Augusto
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author Comanducci, Luca
Antonacci, Fabio
Sarti, Augusto
author_facet Comanducci, Luca
Antonacci, Fabio
Sarti, Augusto
contents Deep learning models are widely applied in the signal processing community, yet their inner working procedure is often treated as a black box. In this paper, we investigate the use of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques to learning-based end-to-end speech source localization models. We consider the Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) technique, which aims to determine which parts of the input are more important for the output prediction. Using LRP we analyze two state-of-the-art models, of differing architectural complexity that map audio signals acquired by the microphones to the cartesian coordinates of the source. Specifically, we inspect the relevance associated with the input features of the two models and discover that both networks denoise and de-reverberate the microphone signals to compute more accurate statistical correlations between them and consequently localize the sources. To further demonstrate this fact, we estimate the Time-Difference of Arrivals (TDoAs) via the Generalized Cross Correlation with Phase Transform (GCC-PHAT) using both microphone signals and relevance signals extracted from the two networks and show that through the latter we obtain more accurate time-delay estimation results.
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spellingShingle Interpreting End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Speech Source Localization Using Layer-wise Relevance Propagation
Comanducci, Luca
Antonacci, Fabio
Sarti, Augusto
Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
Deep learning models are widely applied in the signal processing community, yet their inner working procedure is often treated as a black box. In this paper, we investigate the use of eXplainable Artificial Intelligence (XAI) techniques to learning-based end-to-end speech source localization models. We consider the Layer-wise Relevance Propagation (LRP) technique, which aims to determine which parts of the input are more important for the output prediction. Using LRP we analyze two state-of-the-art models, of differing architectural complexity that map audio signals acquired by the microphones to the cartesian coordinates of the source. Specifically, we inspect the relevance associated with the input features of the two models and discover that both networks denoise and de-reverberate the microphone signals to compute more accurate statistical correlations between them and consequently localize the sources. To further demonstrate this fact, we estimate the Time-Difference of Arrivals (TDoAs) via the Generalized Cross Correlation with Phase Transform (GCC-PHAT) using both microphone signals and relevance signals extracted from the two networks and show that through the latter we obtain more accurate time-delay estimation results.
title Interpreting End-to-End Deep Learning Models for Speech Source Localization Using Layer-wise Relevance Propagation
topic Audio and Speech Processing
Sound
url https://arxiv.org/abs/2404.03436